The news ripped through Javier like a physical blow. He froze mid-sentence, the cheerful conversation with his friends fading into a muffled drone. The details of the email, the specific name… it all felt wrong. The color drained from his face.

He excused himself abruptly, muttering something about a forgotten assignment. His friends looked confused, but he couldn't stay. He needed to be alone. The world around him twisted, the vibrant cafeteria atmosphere transforming into a menacing backdrop.

Outside, the sunlight felt harsh, the air thin. He walked aimlessly, each step heavy. He felt a profound sense of injustice, a burning resentment that threatened to consume him. He wanted to lash out, to break something, to scream until his voice was raw.

Emotion: horrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.63 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.17

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion horrified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 horrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the horrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the horrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😰0.336
sickening0.324
worse0.314
😣0.307
😖0.296
Suppressed:
la-0.444
B-0.295
enjoyed-0.260
optim-0.246
happy-0.244